Gulf War

Word Count: 2898War, justifiable or not, is complete madness. It is hell. No matter what the cause, or what the reason is, war remains mankinds greatest source of tragedy, the plague of mankind, and the plague of this country. Our country has existed for only 200 years, a relatively short time, and already we have […]

Wartime Propaganda: World War I The Drift Towards War Lead this people into war, and they’ll forget there was ever such a thing as tolerance. To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fiber of national life, infecting the Congress, the courts, the policeman […]

rs ever fought by the Unites States of by any country. It was never officially declared a war (Knowll, 3). It had no official beginning nor an official end. It was fought over 10,000 miles away in a virtually unknown country. The enemy and the allies looked exactly the alike, and may by day be […]

The Persian Gulf War all started because of one country’s greed for oil. Iraq accused Kuwait of pumping oil and not sharing the benfits, and Kuwait was pumping more oil than allowed under quotas set by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, it decreased the price of oil, Iraq’s main export. Iraq’s complaints against Kuwait […]

The Greek-Trojan War in The Iliad The gods and goddesses that the Greek people believe in make up the Greek mythology studied today. These divine characters represent a family living on Mount Olympus who intervene frequently in the lives of the human characters in Greek plays. They are omnipresent, for they are always observing mans […]

Assessment of Inappropriate Behavioral Development It is far easier to measure a child’s physical growth and maturation than to assess the complexities of individual differences in children’s disruptive and antisocial development. Pediatricians can clearly record increases in a child’s weight and height on growth charts and even provide percentile estimates indicating how a child compares […]

ecorum estAll Wilfred Owenss poems seem to rhyme. The ends of the alternate lines rhyme in most all of his poems for example in The send off The 1st line ends in way and the 3rd in gay. This is repeated with other rhyming words all through the poem. On the 7th and 9th lines […]

The United States of Americas war on drugs today is very similar to Americas Prohibition of Alcohol in the 1920s. These two major issues of their time may not seem like they can be logically compared, but statistics for usage and a correlating rise in crime for both eras show a strong relationship. There is […]

The Impact of War at Home When war was declared, there were no celebrations. Instead the government took immediate action, and emergency powers, everyone was issued with gas masks in 1938. The bombing power of the Germans was something that was feared greatly by those that remembered the first war, and by the government, who […]

“A date that will live in infamy,” (Snyder 33) was what President Franklin Delano Roosevelt called December 7, 1941. It was a calm Sunday morning at Pearl Harbor on the island of Oahu. Then two U.S. soldiers saw an oscilloscope signal on their mobile radars. They immediately called this in to their commanding officer but […]